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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Joe Landman <landman@scalableinformatics.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: An issue with fio performance on an SSD
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:40:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100719174049.GA32503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C448A72.4070601@scalableinformatics.com>

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:25:06PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
> Joe Landman wrote:
> >Greetings
> >
> >  We are playing with some SSDs, and as usual, we want to use fio
> >for our testing regime.  So we set up a simple streaming write:
> 
> Ok, I figured it out.
> 
> Add zero_buffers=1 to the job specification.  Then we get this:
> 
> Run status group 0 (all jobs):
>   WRITE: io=32,706MB, aggrb=535MB/s, minb=548MB/s, maxb=548MB/s,
> mint=61133msec, maxt=61133msec

Interesting. Why not initializing bufferes with zero leads to poor
performance?

Vivek

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-19 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-19 14:58 An issue with fio performance on an SSD Joe Landman
2010-07-19 17:25 ` Joe Landman
2010-07-19 17:40   ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2010-07-19 17:44     ` Joe Landman

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